Wow...they seem to have a lot of animosity in those videos, especially that Jourlzy girl.

Love your hair, and fukc who doesn't.

She seems unnecessarily mad, and has this weird sense of entitlement to views and free products.

I do agree that people do aspire to hair types nothing like theirs, and companies cthemd market more to people with kinkier textures...other than that...that video rubbed me the wrong way.

I didn't see it as a sense of entitlement, she's saying she paid her dues just like the rest of these girls but they get called on to be partnered with companies & events. Her whole point is that she's doing this for girls with her hair type & trying to spread info & help but she's not getting the backing from people to expand like these other girls that honestly don't do anything but a wash regimen videos over & over, even the ones with less views than her get called to represent simply because of hair type.

And about the desire for someone else's hair type. I remember denimpixie/Elle/quest for the perfect curl, making a blog post and video about women getting mad at her because the product "didn't work". The kicker is, they never said the products didn't moisturize or soften, they were complaining it wasn't giving them curl definition. That's one of the reasons she was always a little snarky in her videos. Products she tried & recommended actually worked as far as moisture on others hair but they're crying about not having curls like her that they never had in the first place. It's ridiculous.

Someone just recently said if you're 100% honest with yourself about your hair type, being natural will be so much more easier. Stop trying to convince yourself that your weighed down with water & conditioner hair is your real hair type and searching high & low for products to keep that look. It's not your hair if it shrinks up into smaller coils eventually, once the weight of the water is gone that's your hair. Stop being delusional. They need to stop convincing themselves " oh I have a section of 3c & 3b" um where?! Come to terms with what you have and you may just learn to love it. Managing your hair type & texture is much easier than trying to manage the texture you're lying to yourself about having. They kill me with these "dime sized" amount product application then complain about dryness, ssk's, & wng's "not working". Stop trying to style your hair like a 2c/3a natural & you wouldn't have these problems.

I just watched Jouelzy's video. She sounds butthurt. Yeah people discriminate based on hair texture and it's wrong but it's always been that way. I think the reasons Naptural85 and MahoganyCurls are so popular is not because of their hairstyles or the universality of the content on their channels but rather specifically because of their silky hair textures. People like looking at it. They are pretty much getting paid to come on youtube and play in their hair for other people to see. Not to say that they don't know their shyt because I think they do, but so do a lot of people on youtube who aren't getting that amount of publicity. But if I may say so I think Jouelzy is part of the problem. First of all she never wears her natural hair texture. She never wears afros, puffs, wash n gos, etc from what I've seen. Everything she does is an attempt to stretch her hair texture. How can she expect to propagate the idea that 4c hair is beautiful if she never wears it out? She must think it needs fixing if she refuses to wear it the way it is. Second of all her hair broke off at the back and she had to cut it. Youtube likes long hair. Youtube likes mystical hair. Youtube don't like no hair that broke off at the back and had to get cut. Another thing is 4c people will come on and rag on their hair about how dry it is, how hard it is to comb, how kinky it is, just generally things that make it seem unglamorous and unattractive. MahoganyCurls and Naptural85 never come on and bitch about their hair texture.

I agree with what she said about boycotting these hair companies that don't cater to us. Recently MahoganyCurls was part of a natural hair show and I was thinking of attending because I was in the area at the time but I thought about it and was like ummm no. All these people paying $75 to go there and see her because she has "good hair," point blank period. Neither her nor her hair ain't gon do a damn thing for nobody in that audience but they know they can charge people to come see her because she has long silky hair. What kinda shyt? And damn near everybody in the audience, 8/10 of them gon be a type 4 giving up their money. Would the show have paid a type 4 sista to help host the event? Would the same number of people have paid their hard earned money to go see her? I don't think so. The natural hair hierarchy is a reflection of our colorist society as a whole so you really can't expect much better. But no I do not spend my money on companies that do not use people with my hair type to advertise their products. I ain't buying no Curls, Miss Jessie's, Carol's Daughter Mixed Chicks, Mixed Roots, nothing like that. It seems like as soon as we come up with a way to celebrate being ourselves they will come up with a way to divide us and rub in "mixed is better" or "whiter is better." Glamfun was putting $30-$60 Miss Jessie's in her nappy head and it still fell out and she ended up relaxing it. Y'all better stop financing these people or they will never respect you.

I forgot where I read this but someone said that the majority of these women who went natural and complain about their texture and try to get it to curl up and wave up, never wanted natural hair in the first place. What they really wanted was fashionably curly hair.

^Naptural & Mahogany have nothing to complain about their texture though lol Mahogany knows and has said even when her hair feels like crap (dry etc products didn't work) her hair still looks good. Naptural is simplistic, and gives me "boho" type of girl, she really is "natural" in all aspects. She actually doesn't care when he hair looks dry or dreaded up (she stretches out the time she wears her curlformers because she said she likes that it looks like locs) she doesn't complain since she like the tamed and frizzy look.

But anyway great points. Especially that glamfun part, that girl spent at least $200 on Miss Jessie's products & relaxed months later. Stop supporting companies that aren't here for you. The only time MJ's marketed to black women with kinky hair is when they had that whole "turn kinks into curls" thing (they do texturizer in their salons to give nappy girls curly hair).

I forgot where I read this but someone said that the majority of these women who went natural and complain about their texture and try to get it to curl up and wave up, never wanted natural hair in the first place. What they really wanted was fashionably curly hair.

This. My mom did this. She kept talking about "going natural" I had no idea what she was talking about at first never heard about natural hair and I had to Google it lol

But anyway I noticed she bought all these damn products and began acting "uppity" about natural hair. Talking about "my curls" "my curly hair" that she had no idea if she had. Not surprisingly my mom jumped off the bandwagon after basically being a natural Nazi after she big chopped and didn't have hair like Mahogany. I kept telling her about all the other girls on YouTube but she kept saying "I only watch her" I was trying to help her. I didn't expect to have curly hair or any pattern so I was not disappointed I wanted to rock afro styles. My mother only desired Mahogany's hair and when she didn't have it she tried to and still does throw shade a natural hair like she wasn't just claiming it. My mom is one of those ignorant black folks, I think she thought because Mahogany was not only full black but had dark skin and still had silky curly she just knew she had it if this dark skinned chick did.

But anyway I actually got into natural hair after seeing how good it looked. My mom really thought that because she wasnt going natural anymore that i was gonna follow, she never said it but based on genes she would assume we had the same hair and didnt want me walking around nappy headed. I didn't cream my pants when I saw my curl pattern because I didn't care from the jump. Funny thing is I think my mom actually does have a loose texture she just had scab hair. She just didn't want to deal with it. I'm glad she's relaxed though, I would have to go everyday hearing her talk about "her fine silky curls blah blah blah"

But with all that said she was one of the MANY that went natural for silky curly hair and not the right reason which is healthy hair, length retention, and to stop putting harmful chemicals on her scalp to conform to beauty standards. She has a bald spot now from relaxers now as usual smh it's been eating her hair for decades. That's what you call self hate, you won't change your damaging hair practices because you don't want "nappy" hair as if that's a bad thing

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